Pamela Abner

Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Office for Diversity & Inclusion Mount Sinai Health System

Ms. Pamela Abner has more than twenty years of comprehensive senior human resources experience  in  a  multi-site  health  care  system  overseeing  and  leading  benefits,  pension, recruitment,  compensation  employee  relations,  human  resource  systems  and  diversity management. In the capacity of benefits executive at the former Continuum Health Partners, she was successful in managing the organization’s employee wellness and population health initiative to significantly and consistently reduce benefit plan expenses. She has expanded her management skills and enhanced her focus over the past twelve years, to provide executive diversity leadership both in a managerial and consulting capacity to establish diversity, inclusion and equity as core organizational values.

In her current role as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Diversity and Inclusion for the Mount Sinai Health System (comprised of the Icahn School of Medicine and seven New York City hospitals), Ms. Abner is primarily responsible for system-wide administrative, fiscal, policy, and practice related management activities to sustain diversity, inclusion and equity. She consults and collaborates with hospital and school leadership, faculty and staff to provide expertise in best practices, conduct integrative work and set the strategic, innovative and programmatic agenda for diversity, inclusion and equity across all business lines. Ms. Abner strives to ultimately develop, advance and guide initiatives to create an inclusive environment for the workforce (faculty, staff), workplace (students, patients) and marketplace (suppliers, providers).

With regard to notable accomplishments, Ms. Abner’s thought-leadership ability and strategic management guidance was fundamental to Mount Sinai Health System attaining national ranking among the DiversityInc Top Hospital Systems for four consecutive years; in 2017, Mount Sinai Health System ranked #1 in the nation.   Among her distinctions, in 2017, the Tri-State Diversity Council named Ms. Abner among the Most Powerful and Influential Women recognizing her many contributions as a diversity and inclusion leader.